Follow up to RT - Parents

"What were you thinking, Reid?" Mrs. Garwin scolded when she had her son sitting in front of her, his clothes haphazardly thrown on and his hair a mess. He screamed 'sex,' and it seemed to aggravate her more. "Anyone could have walked up there and seen you!"

"Who cares? I don't. I can give a rat's ass about what your stupid 'important' friends think, and right about now, I don't care about what you think either," Reid shot back and turned away from his mother to stare at the wall behind his bed.

"Don't you dare get angry at me, young man. If your father was here-"

"Well, he's not," Reid snapped and stood up, turning to his mother to look his mother in the eye, "He's not, but I am, and I am definitely not him. So how about you kick me out, put me up for adoption, send me to Switzerland... do something, just stop judging me."

Mrs. Garwin watched him in disbelief and shook her head at his words. "Reid... do you think I would do any of that? You're my son, and I love you no matter what you do... or who."

Reid's anger dissipated, and he let out a quiet laugh at the statement. "Then why are you making such a big deal about this?"

"What would you do in my place?"

"Say 'I love you, Reid, you're the best son ever.' And then shower me with gifts."

Mrs. Garwin rolled her eyes and pulled her son into a tight hug, giving him a kiss on the cheek as she did so. "You could have told me."

"Sorry," Reid mumbled and tried squirming his way out of the hug, but his mother held on.

"Oh, you are not let off this easy... I told you not to disappear, and you did just that," Mrs. Garwin took on that tone, and Reid knew he was in trouble. The hug turned into her grabbing his ear tightly and dragging him around his room to show him the mess. "All of this? Gone. I want this room spic and span by the time you go back to school."

"Okay, okay, but let go of my ear, Mom!" Reid whined and winced at the tight tug he received because of it.

"And then you will help send out all of the 'Thank You' cards to the guests here today, and then you will come with me to visit your Aunt Dorothy-"

"But she has brats as kids, and she lives in the middle of no-"

"And then, before your winter break ends, we will have Tyler and his parents over, and we will discuss what is going on."

"...can me and Tyler not be there for that?"

"If you try, I will go through with my threat from before. No dorming for the rest of the year."

"I'll be there."